--- title: Những chiến thắng rực rỡ mở màn năm Bính-Ngọ (The Brilliant Victories That Begin the Year of the Horse) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nhung-chien-thang-ruc-ro-mo-man-nam-binh-ngo-1966/ description: A single-colour photo poster (code SP-1038) announces results from the start of the lunar second month of the Year of the Horse. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Những chiến thắng rực rỡ mở màn năm Bính-Ngọ [![Những chiến thắng rực rỡ mở màn năm Bính-Ngọ, 1966 US poster: A single-colour photo poster (code SP-1038) announces results](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/nhung-chien-thang-ruc-ro-mo-man-nam-binh-ngo-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/nhung-chien-thang-ruc-ro-mo-man-nam-binh-ngo-1966.jpg) # Những chiến thắng rực rỡ mở màn năm Bính-Ngọ (The Brilliant Victories That Begin the Year of the Horse) A single-colour photo poster (code SP-1038) announces results from the start of the lunar second month of the Year of the Horse: 634 Viet Cong dead in Quang Ngai under 'Operation Lien Ket 26' and 1,484 in Binh Dinh under 'Operation Than Phong 11'. It pairs these figures with helicopters and infantry in a field, a heap of captured weapons, and former Viet Cong sharing a meal at a Chieu Hoi centre. Body counts, hardware and a smiling meal are stacked as one picture of success, and returnees are shown joining the winning side. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` NHỮNG CHIẾN THẮNG RỰC RỠ MỞ MÀN NĂM BÍNH-NGỌ Đầu tháng hai âm lịch, quân đội VNCH và Hoa Kỳ đã tiêu diệt: - Tại Quảng Ngãi, trong cuộc hành quân "Liên Kết 26". 634 VC bỏ xác tại chỗ. - Tại Bình Định , trong cuộc hành quân "Thần Phong 11":1484 VC chết tại trận. Quân ta tịch thu vô số khí giới và tài liệu quan trọng. Mỗi một chiến sĩ VNCH đều được yểm trợ hữu hiệu bởi đủ thứ khí giới tối tân khiến họ thêm nỗ lực truy kích, tiêu diệt địch. Đây là một phần nhỏ trong số khí giới đạn dược đủ loại quân ta tịch thu của Việt Cộng. Những người này nhân cơ hội hành quân đã trở về với chính nghĩa quốc gia để được giải thoát khỏi ách VC. Đây là một số nhỏ trong số hàng trăm người đã trở về để làm lại cuộc đời. Họ đang dự một bữa ăn vui vẻ tại Trung Tâm Chiêu Hồi. SP-1038 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THE BRILLIANT VICTORIES THAT OPEN THE YEAR OF THE HORSE At the start of the second lunar month, the Republic of Vietnam army and the Americans destroyed: - In Quang Ngai, in the operation "Lien Ket 26": 634 VC left their bodies on the spot. - In Binh Dinh, in the operation "Than Phong 11": 1,484 VC dead in the battle. Our troops seized countless weapons and important documents. Every Republic of Vietnam soldier is effectively backed by all kinds of modern weapons, which makes them more determined to pursue and destroy the enemy. This is a small part of the weapons and ammunition of all kinds that our troops seized from the Viet Cong. Taking advantage of the operations, these people returned to the national cause to be freed from the VC yoke. These are a few of the hundreds of people who have returned to start their lives again. They are attending a cheerful meal at the Chieu Hoi Center. SP-1038 ``` Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering from the poster's Vietnamese text, not verified by a fluent reader; diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution. [← News of Darlac](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/news-of-darlac-1966/) [Những người bạn giúp đỡ chúng ta! (Friends Who Help Us!) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nhung-nguoi-ban-giup-do-chung-ta-sp-1448-1966/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.